Serve the People!

Yan Lianke was born in 1958 in Henan Province, China. He is the author of numerous novels and short-story collections, including Serve the People!, Dream of Ding Village, Lenin's Kisses, The Four Books, The Explosion Chronicles and The Day the Sun Died. He has been awarded the Hua Zhong World Chinese Literature Prize, the Lao She Literary Award, the Dream of the Red Chamber Award and the Franz Kafka Prize. He has also been shortlisted for the International Man Booker Prize, the Principe de Asturias Prize for Letters, the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, the FT/Oppenheimer Fund Emerging Voices Award and the prix Femina etranger. The Day the Sun Died won the Dream of the Red Chamber Award for the World's Most Distinguished Novel in Chinese. He lives and writes in Beijing.

Product details

• Authors: Yan Lianke, Lianke Yan, Lianke Yan
• Publisher: Vintage UK
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781529113914
• ISBN: 978-1-5291-1391-4
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; China, Historical romance, Historical fiction, FICTION / Romance / Historical / 20th Century, FICTION / Political, FICTION / Satire, FICTION / Romance / Military, Narrative theme: Politics, c 1960 to c 1970, Narrative theme: Love and relationships, c 1960 to c 1969, Satirical fiction and parodies